What foods do you enjoy because of the texture rather than flavour?
What foods do you enjoy because of the texture rather than flavour?
I love anything squishy like a marshmallow, chalky like musk pencils, or really gummy chewy like Haribo gummy bears.
Anything with a tater-tot kind of structure- loose grains that get crispy on the outside but keep it softer on the inside.
I've been buying these "Coco rolls" snacks recently. They're a crunchy flaky slightly sweet snack and I just can't get enough of the texture of them. They taste good too, but it's the texture that I crave.
Those are really great broken up over some yogurt.
Wood ear mushrooms. They don't have much flavor -- a little olive oil can give them flavor -- but they're crunchy.
Munching on crushed ice.
Mochi!
I also like their flavour. Especially matcha and red bean. But the texture is really what I like them for.
Dragee stuff. Like sweets with a hard coating and a softer inside (dragee eggs). When you break the coating the whole thing starts to melt in your mouth.
One thing I love and simply haven't found a replacement yet: "Obstgarten" yogurt which is very fluffy quark with a bit of fruit jam underneath. I don't want the fruit jam, but I do love the quark part. If you buy other quark products they simply don't have the same texture (which is probably created with nitrogen in an industrial process and can't easily be replicated at home).